Lesson 12- Reflection 3

After going through all the lessons in this course, i was proud of myself for already using and being familiar with some of them. I think overall, what i have taken from this course is a heighten awareness of technology in education. The School 2.0 lesson really helped illustrate this idea. I have many ideas for using most of the tools we learned in my instruction.

One main thing that i plan to do differently is really use my website more. I will make sure that students get a list of links (my website, blog) and have opportunities to use them throughout the year. I will also make sure that i go over what is on my site and how they can use it. This is something that i haven't done in previous years, despite having resources posted.

I also hope to get a blog going to use for critiques outside of class time. It will be a great way to post a video of an artist and have the students comment on it.

Something else that i picked up in one of the podcasts, was to have students research a topic as opposed to lecturing. There are many times where i just feed them info about an artist. I am looking forward to giving them a name, having them research and then asking them questions. I hope that this might motivate them (for small rewards of course:)). I get excited to learn about artists so somehow i would like to transfer that to them.


This course was very useful and i would recommend that every teacher take it! What a great way to learn about all the things our students already know!!!